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It seems a vision of a far-off utopian future or the wildest dreams of science fiction: you sit down with your laptop at a coffee shop, a steaming mug of half double-twist decaf caramel latte beside you.

You open the lid of the computer and a green light above the screen comes on, and perhaps you hear the faint sound of a whirling servo.

You’ve barely raised the over-priced misshapen hipster mug to your lips when the system displays a welcome message and logs you in without any keyboard input.

Setting the mug down, you make am upwards gesture and swirl with one hand.

In July 2010 I already blogged about the fact that HipHop for PHP, the source code transformer that turns PHP code into C++ code that can then be compiled with g++, can also be used for static code analysis to find problems in PHP source code.

The latest episode of the "/dev/hell" podcast has been released - Episode 4: "The Cool Kids Club".

It’s no secret that the entertainment industries believe search engines are not delivering enough when it comes to protecting copyright works.

Just last month, the RIAA and IFPI accused Google of massively profiting from piracy, while putting up barriers to make life difficult for rightsholders.

IT World: "Bucking the trend of increasingly experimental desktop interfaces, the developers behind the Linux Mint are adopting a simpler desktop for the next version of the open-source Linux distribution."

The White House's use of its "We The People..." petition system has been interesting to watch over the last few months since it was introduced.

While they quickly raised the "threshold" necessary to get a response, lately it's been used in some interesting ways.

Microsoft threw a spotlight on its support for the open-source Node.js server-side JavaScript development environment this week at the Node Summit in San Francisco.

In this recent post from Charles Sprayberry he explains why using dependency injection (DI) in your application is a good idea and can help make things easier in the long run.